$800? Man why don't you go to a library instead?

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"Veni, Vidi, Vici"= I came I saw, I conquered. - Julius Caesar.
"We shall never surrender"- Winston Churchill.
"United we are strong, united we will win"

Hey Friedrich, i couldve sent you Rise and Fall of the third Reich for free (in a trade of course)


As for the Library? Yes, try that. Thats where I read Beevor's Stalingrad.

CvM

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Having just read the story of 'B Company' at the Arnhem Bridge, I've just bought ' The Battered Bastards of Bastogne - A Chronicle of the Defense of Bastogne, December 19 1944 - January 17 1945' by George Koskimaki.

And it's another one you can't put down ! Again, just the sort of thing I enjoy the most - a 'Middlebrook-style' of work culled from the reminiscences of 530 ex-101st Airborne soldiers woven into an absorbing story of the whole of the Battle of Bastogne.

It's a US import ( Casemate Press, 2003 ) and it's available now...

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Thank you, Martin! Sounds like just my kind of book, too!

I corresponded with mr. Kosimaki about 10 years ago when he first published his Hell's Higway book, about the 101st in Holland.

Does it ever end? I mean the book-thing??? [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]

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Stevin - have you been corresponding with my wife ?? - because those are her exact words !!!

But sadly, of course, the veteran's accounts will end ( 60 of the contributors to the 'Bastogne' book died before it was published ).

But that's one of the great things about studying military history - for sure, a lot of disappointing or lazy books are published, but also many very good ones...

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I just bought new books

WORLD WAR II

*"Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame - The Story of the Japanese Canadians in World War II" by Barry Broadfoot.

*"In All Respects Ready - The Merchand Navy and The Battle of the Atlantic, 1940-1945" by Commander Frederic B. Watt, RCN (R) Retd.

*"MONTY - The Making of a General 1887-1942" by Nigel Hamilton

*"Far Distant Ships - An Official Account of Canadian Naval Operation in World War II" By Joesph Schull

*"Unlucky Lady - The Life & Death of HMCS Athabaskan" by Len Burrow and Emile Beaudoin

*DUNKIRK - The Necessary Mith" by Nicholas Harman

*Six War Years 1939 - 1945 Memories of Canadians at Home and Abroad" by Barry Broadfoot


WORLD WAR I

*"More Than Patriotism - Canada at War 1914-1918" by Kathryn M. Bindon

* "The Veterans' Years - Coming Home From the War" by Barry Broadfoot

And right now I'm just finishing tranlsating Dante's Inferno into English (I have the Italian Copy) for my cousin.

DUCE

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I just got "Decision in Normandy" after seeing so many people from here and other places recommend it. I haven't had much free time today so I've only read two chapters. But so far it's great!

My nose is tuck in a couple of them right now but off the top it is still Rolf Güth's liitle book on Zerstörer Z-34

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Right now I'm reading Bob Morgan's book about his 25 missions flying the Memphis Belle.

Greg

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Carlo D'Este's Normandy book is one of my favourites, DB - I have re-read it twice. Enjoy !

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Still have to get that one.

I just finished Simon Haines THE HOLLAND PATCH and started in Martin Middlebrook's ARNHEM 1944.

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Middlebrook is my favourite Arnhem book - it runs out of steam a little toward the end, but it's a great, great read & one that I always take to Arnhem with me.

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At least for me it doesn't! Let me have my credit card back!!! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Why don't I try a library?! It's idiotic! I must OWN every book I read!

And that exchanging books thing sounds nice... [img]smile.gif[/img]

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"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

Last Flight of the Luftwaffe:
The Fate of Schulungslehrgang Elbe, 7 April 1945
by Adrian Weir

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The Bedford Boys.

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I thought of reading soem good oled cold war stuff...

By some Russian author from the beginning of the 1960´s a book titled " The truth about the second front"...Should be interesting to see how the Russians claim Churchill ( probably ) a liar and the reasons he gave were just excuses...

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A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia

Received it from an American friend.

Anyone who thinks Lenin, Stalin & Co. were "good guys" should be forced to read this.

http://www.yale.edu/yup/books/087608.htm


...when orders came from Moscow to root out "anti-Soviet elements" they had friggin quotas of how many "conspirators" are to be found and "tried in court" (they had also quotas of how many should be shot) or just exiled to Siberia or sent to hard labor camps. Of course, the local authorities being the good bolsheviks they were, always strived to exceed the quotas...



I highly recommend it.

Bought too many books lately, but the highlights are,

Deadulus Returned by Von Der Heydte
Arnhem Lift by Louis Hagen
History of the Royal Marines by Julian Thompson
The Last Knight of Flanders by Allen Brandt

And a complete OOB and analysis of German troops in Normandy 1944.

Oh and I just finished Popski's Private Army!!!

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Has anyone ever read David H. Hackworth's "Brave Men" or "About Face?" They're about his personal experiences when he served at 16-17 y/o? in the occupation forces post WWII, his dealings with a "Special Forces" group called the "Wolfhounds" in Korea, and his experiences in Vietnam. He was a very highly decorated veteran of those two conflicts and still writes commentaries on military actions/campaigns to this day. "Brave Men" is one of those books you just don't mind reading three or four times!

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Koskimaki's style makes reading history addictive. Once you finish his Battered Bastards book, look for "To Save Bastogne" by Robert F Phillips; first published in 1983 and dedicated to the 110th Infantry Division who bought enough time with their blood to permit Bastogne to be reinforced and eventually relieved.

It puts the entire action into perspective.

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Many thanks, MajorD !

In fact, I have a nice copy of ' To Save Bastogne ' waiting to be read...I bought it from a US dealer via Bookfinder last year. I am gradually putting together a good 'Bulge' library - many of the books being available only from US sources.

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